In exciting news, the guy who has been obsessively planning to run for president for years now will finally stop lying about it.
“People talk about it and you’d be lying if you haven’t thought about it, processed it,” Newsom told CNN. By which he means he’s running for president and he’s been lying about it for a while now and spouting gibberish.
Take this masterful response over the summer about why he was in South Carolina.
When asked by reporters in Los Angeles Monday if the real reason behind his trip had anything to do with South Carolina being an early primary state, the governor said, “you don’t know that, and I don’t know that and so that’s why I would suggest it’s what it is.”
Kamala can only gasp at that one.
“I’m not thinking about running, but it’s a path that I could see unfold,” he told The Wall Street Journal a month earlier.
The good news though is that Gov. Newsom, if you believe him (Brooklyn Bridge, 40% off) was not thinking about running for president until Trump started sending the National Guard in to stop riots.
For years, the California governor said he had “sub-zero” interest in running for president, even as he appeared to be taking steps to raise his national profile. Newsom said Monday his stance has changed because “everything has changed.” He referred to the president’s decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles and other cities as an example of new norms that have reshaped the country.
“I just think we’re on the other side of something radically different, not marginally different,” Newsom said. “Everything has changed in terms of my mindset, my focus, my energy, my perspective on the world we’re living in.”
If Newsom and Kamala both run, the epic battle of word salads will be truly amazing. Random adjectives! New Age Newspeak! Convoluted sentence structure!
Here’s the reality behind the lies.
Years before the National Guard was being deployed, before Trump was even elected, Gov. Newsom, who was term limited out, began creating PACs, including national ones.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking fundraising steps often used by potential presidential candidates, setting up multiple committees that in their first three months have raised and spent millions of dollars.
The three Newsom-affiliated committees are a political action committee, which limits contributions to $5,000 a year and can donate to individual candidates; a SuperPAC, which can raise unlimited amounts of cash but is restricted from promoting a specific candidate, and a joint fundraising committee, which functions like a bank, mostly collecting and distributing funds to the other groups.
Nathan Click, a campaign advisor for Newsom, flatly refuted that narrative and pointed to dozens of instances where the governor said he had no interest in the White House.
He was lying.
